In keeping with the Netanyahu approach – which views East Jerusalem Palestinians as a security problem to be dealt with, rather than a constituent population to be engaged – enhanced law enforcement continues to be a key tool used by the Israeli authorities in East Jerusalem. This includes:

Continued arrests of large numbers of Palestinians, including of minors as young as 7, and even the use of Administrative Detention against Palestinian minors from East Jerusalem (involving no indictments and no due process, but lengthy and renewable incarceration).

Israeli security raids of hospitals in East Jerusalem (see here, here, and here).

Israel adopted a new law requiring a minimum sentence of three years in jail for stone throwers (in theory this would apply to Israeli stone throwers as well as Palestinians; in practice it is difficult to imagine that this will ever be the case). A Palestinian minor was the first person to be sentenced under the new law (almost guaranteeing that a hopeless angry youth will in a few years emerge from Israeli prison an angry, radicalized young adult).

The Jerusalem Municipality is urging Palestinian parents to prevent their children from having access to “dangerous objects such as knives.” (A plea that borders on the surreal given that presence of knives in every kitchen in every home anywhere in the world, and given that almost anything, including a ruler, can be fashioned into a knife).